FANTASY HOCKEY

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Trending upNashville Predators: Maybe some people thought the Predators' hot start this season was a fluke, but we're more than a quarter of the way through the schedule and they are atop the stacked Central Division with a 16-5-2 record and 34 points after a 2-1 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday.

BURNSIDE: OK, has everyone in Canada exhaled yet after Tuesdays Olympic roster announcement? What was easy to ignore amid the drama that surrounded the Canadian announcement, at least a little bit, was that the rest of the field for the Sochi Olympics hockey tournament had also unveiled their respective 25-man rosters by the end of the day.

With Mikael Backlund (sprained knee) out at least a month, AHL call-up Ben Street is set to make his NHL debut with the Calgary Flames.The Flames opted to promote Street over Paul Byron and Roman Horak from the Abbotsford Heat, according to the Calgary Sun.